polychrestic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Next in order to these polychrestic medicines come the following […]"
- "Theoretically, at least, sulphur and calcarea should precede any, as it were, organopathic prescription for cancer, and such are the multiform, polychrestic powers of these two drugs that a subkatabolic lesion of such import can hardly be imagined where these twain should not be successively indicated."
Etymology
From polychrest + -ic.
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more polychrestic (comparative)
most polychrestic (superlative)